Carnivorous Plants 101

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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0:00.0	When I was younger, I remember begging my mom at Home Depot to buy me a Venus flytrap,
0:18.5	which she did.
0:20.1	I think she wasn't too excited about it, but I convinced her to do it.
0:23.8	And then within three to six days, it was dead.
0:26.6	And I still remember that to this day.
0:28.1	I feel like I failed it.
0:29.7	I thought I'd just had a wait for a fly to show up.
0:32.4	And I think in this episode with Josh Brown, a predatory plants, we're going to learn
0:36.3	why I may not be correct there.
0:38.3	And we're also going to dive just into Josh, what makes a plant classified as a carnivorous
0:43.5	plant?
0:44.5	Right.
0:45.5	Yeah, thanks again for bringing me on here.
0:49.8	The definition of carnivorous plant has actually moved around quite a bit over the
0:53.3	years since I got started.
0:56.1	There have been multiple attempts to classify what it is.
1:00.8	It's actually more difficult than it sounds.
1:02.4	There are certain classifications that would call tomatoes and potatoes carnivorous,
1:07.9	if you're not careful, because they do have some of the characteristics of the plants
1:11.8	that we consider traditional carnivores.
1:14.9	But as it stands right now, the definition is that the plant has to have five specific
1:21.1	traits.
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